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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel El-HesiCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 7.024 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kiryat Gat Nearest Village: Eitan
Latitude: 31.547820N Longitude: 34.730530E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel
Tell el-Hesi is an important archaeological site situated midway along the Wadi Hesi (an important east-west transit route) in present-day Israel.
The military importance of the site is clear, representing one of the three most strategically vital positions in controlling access along and between the southern coastal plain and the Shephelah
Tell el-Hesi (Hebrew: תל חסי) is an archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892, both sponsored by the Palestine Exploration Fund. Petrie's excavations were one of the first to systematically use stratigraphy and seriation to produce a chronology of the site. While Petrie and Bliss believed that Tell el-Hesi was the Biblical site of Lachish, this hypothesis is no longer accepted. Tell el-Hesi is located southwest of the modern Israeli city of Qiryat Gat, at point 12451063 of the Israel grid, or at 34 degrees 43 minutes 50 seconds east longitude and 31 degrees 43 minutes and 45 seconds north latitude.
The site was originally excavated between 1890 and 1892 by the Palestine Exploration Fund in a series of five campaigns directed first by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and then by Frederick Jones Bliss. They published their final reports in 1891 and 1894.
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